Hebrews 12:8

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If you are not disciplined—and everyone undergoes discipline—then you are illegitimate children and not true sons.

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  • Ps 73:1 : 1 Surely God is good to Israel, to those who are pure in heart.
  • Ps 73:14-15 : 14 For I am stricken all day long and chastened every morning. 15 If I had spoken out like that, I would have betrayed Your children.
  • Heb 12:6 : 6 For the Lord disciplines those He loves, and He chastises every son He accepts.
  • 1 Pet 5:9-9 : 9 Resist him, standing firm in your faith, knowing that the same kinds of suffering are being experienced by your fellow believers throughout the world. 10 But the God of all grace, who called you to His eternal glory in Christ, after you have suffered for a little while, will Himself restore, establish, strengthen, and uphold you.

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  • Heb 12:4-7
    4 verses
    90%

    4In your struggle against sin, you have not yet resisted to the point of shedding your blood.

    5And you have forgotten the exhortation that addresses you as sons: "My son, do not take lightly the Lord’s discipline, and do not lose heart when you are reproved by Him."

    6For the Lord disciplines those He loves, and He chastises every son He accepts.

    7If you endure discipline, God is treating you as sons. For what son is there whom his father does not discipline?

  • Heb 12:9-11
    3 verses
    81%

    9Moreover, we have all had human fathers who disciplined us, and we respected them. How much more should we submit to the Father of spirits and live!

    10Our earthly fathers disciplined us for a few days as they thought best; but God disciplines us for our good, so that we may share in His holiness.

    11No discipline seems pleasant at the time, but painful. Later on, however, it produces a harvest of righteousness and peace for those who have been trained by it.

  • Prov 3:11-12
    2 verses
    76%

    11My son, do not despise the LORD's discipline, and do not be weary of His reproof.

    12For the LORD disciplines the one He loves, as a father the son in whom he delights.

  • Deut 21:18-19
    2 verses
    75%

    18If a man has a stubborn and rebellious son who does not obey his father or mother, and they discipline him but he will not listen to them,

    19his father and mother are to take hold of him and bring him to the elders at the gate of his city.

  • Deut 8:5
    75%

    5Know then in your heart that just as a man disciplines his son, so the Lord your God disciplines you.

  • Prov 13:24
    73%

    24Whoever spares the rod hates their child, but the one who loves their child is diligent to discipline them.

  • Prov 19:18
    72%

    18Discipline your son while there is hope, and do not desire his death.

  • Gal 4:7
    71%

    7So you are no longer a slave, but a son; and if a son, then also an heir through God.

  • Prov 23:13-14
    2 verses
    71%

    13Do not withhold discipline from a child; though you strike him with the rod, he will not die.

    14You shall strike him with the rod and deliver his soul from Sheol.

  • 1 Cor 11:32
    71%

    32Nevertheless, when we are judged by the Lord, we are disciplined so that we may not be condemned with the world.

  • Eph 6:4
    71%

    4Fathers, do not provoke your children to anger, but bring them up in the training and instruction of the Lord.

  • 2 Sam 7:14
    71%

    14I will be his father, and he shall be my son. When he sins, I will discipline him with the rod of men and with the stripes of the sons of men.

  • 1 Cor 4:14-15
    2 verses
    71%

    14I am not writing this to shame you, but to warn you as my beloved children.

    15For even if you have countless teachers in Christ, you do not have many fathers. For in Christ Jesus, I became your father through the gospel.

  • Rom 8:14-15
    2 verses
    71%

    14For all who are led by the Spirit of God are children of God.

    15You did not receive a spirit of slavery to fall back into fear, but you received the Spirit of adoption, by whom we cry out, 'Abba, Father.'

  • Rom 8:17
    70%

    17If we are children, then we are heirs—heirs of God and co-heirs with Christ, if indeed we share in His sufferings so that we may also share in His glory.

  • Job 5:17
    70%

    17Behold, blessed is the one whom God corrects; so do not despise the discipline of the Almighty.

  • Job 8:4
    69%

    4If your children have sinned against Him, He gave them over to the consequences of their transgressions.

  • Prov 1:8
    69%

    8Listen, my son, to your father's instruction, and do not forsake your mother's teaching,

  • Rev 3:19
    69%

    19Those whom I love I rebuke and discipline. So be earnest and repent.

  • Ps 94:12
    69%

    12Blessed is the one you discipline, LORD, the one you teach from Your law.

  • 1 Pet 1:17
    69%

    17If you call upon the Father, who judges impartially according to each one’s deeds, live your lives in reverent fear during the time of your temporary residence here.

  • 2 Pet 1:8
    68%

    8For if these qualities are yours and are increasing, they will keep you from being ineffective or unfruitful in the knowledge of our Lord Jesus Christ.

  • Prov 4:1
    68%

    1Listen, my sons, to the instruction of a father; pay attention so you may gain understanding.

  • Heb 12:17
    67%

    17For you know that afterward, when he wanted to inherit the blessing, he was rejected. He found no opportunity for repentance, even though he sought it with tears.

  • Prov 22:15
    67%

    15Folly is bound up in the heart of a child, but the rod of discipline will drive it far away.

  • Heb 6:8
    67%

    8But if it bears thorns and thistles, it is worthless and near to being cursed, and its end is to be burned.

  • Prov 13:1
    67%

    1A wise son listens to his father's instruction, but a mocker does not heed rebuke.

  • Phil 2:15
    67%

    15so that you may be blameless and pure, children of God without fault in a crooked and perverted generation. Among them, you shine as lights in the world,

  • 1 Pet 1:14
    67%

    14As obedient children, do not conform to the desires you had when you lived in ignorance.

  • Gal 4:28
    67%

    28Now you, brothers, like Isaac, are children of promise.

  • 2 John 1:9
    67%

    9Anyone who goes beyond and does not remain in the teaching of Christ does not have God. Whoever remains in the teaching has both the Father and the Son.

  • Prov 29:15
    67%

    15The rod of correction and discipline impart wisdom, but a child left to himself brings shame to his mother.

  • 2 Cor 6:18
    67%

    18And, 'I will be a Father to you, and you will be my sons and daughters,' says the Lord Almighty.

  • Ezek 18:14
    67%

    14Now suppose this person has a son who sees all the sins his father has committed. Though he sees them, he does not do such things:

  • Prov 19:26
    67%

    26Whoever robs their father and drives out their mother is a child who brings shame and disgrace.

  • Gal 4:1-2
    2 verses
    66%

    1I say that as long as the heir is a child, he is no different from a slave, even though he is the master of everything.

    2But he is under guardians and managers until the time set by his father.

  • Prov 29:17
    66%

    17Discipline your son, and he will bring you peace; he will give delight to your soul.

  • Heb 12:15
    66%

    15See to it that no one falls short of the grace of God and that no root of bitterness springs up to cause trouble and defile many.

  • Prov 17:25
    66%

    25A foolish son brings grief to his father and bitterness to the mother who bore him.